Respect and ChildrenRespect and Children
I attended the school Yarra Valley Grammer (then Yarra Valley Anglican School which I will refer to as “YV”) and completed year 12 in 1990. The school is currently in[...]
Kogan 5120*2160 40″ MonitorKogan 5120*2160 40″ Monitor
I’ve just got a new Kogan 5120*2160 40″ curved monitor. It cost $599 including shipping etc which is much cheaper than the Dell monitor with similar specs selling for about[...]
Links April 2024Links April 2024
Ron Garret wrote an insightful refutation to 2nd amendment arguments [1]. Interesting article from the UK about British Gas losing a civil suit about bill collecting techniques that are harassment[...]
USB PSUsUSB PSUs
I just bought a new USB PSU from AliExpress [1]. I got this to reduce the clutter in my bedroom, I charge my laptop, PineTime, and a few phones at[...]
Galaxy Note 9 DroidianGalaxy Note 9 Droidian
Droidian Support for Note 9 Droidian only supported the version of this phone with the Exynos chipset. The GSM Arena specs page for the Note 9 shows that it’s the[...]
Kitty and MpvKitty and Mpv
6 months ago I switched to Kitty for terminal emulation [1]. So far there’s only been one thing that I couldn’t effectively do with Kitty that I did with Konsole[...]
Humane AI PinHumane AI Pin
I wrote a blog post The Shape of Computers [1] exploring ideas of how computers might evolve and how we can use them. One of the devices I mentioned was[...]
Convergence vs TransferenceConvergence vs Transference
I previously wrote a blog post titled Considering Convergence [1] about the possible ways of using a phone as a laptop. While I still believe what I wrote there I’m[...]
Source Code With EmojiSource Code With Emoji
The XKCD comic Code Quality [1] inspired me to test out emoji in source. I really should have done this years ago when that XKCD was first published. The following[...]
Ubuntu 24.04 and BubblewrapUbuntu 24.04 and Bubblewrap
When using Bubblewrap (the bwrap command) to create a container in Ubuntu 24.04 you can expect to get one of the following error messages: bwrap: loopback: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not[...]